I love my D90S and the EAP is a huge benefit for me personally. But I have a hard time seeing a future in which you would not need a driver watching the road ahead.
But i wonder if iOT technology could enable “almost-self-driving” - a future time where we constantly watch the road but can keep our hands off the steering wheel except when something unexpected happens - person or deer, etc. darts across the road or sudden accident right in front of you, etc. As i envision it, towns, counties, States, etc could be certified as “almost-self-driving” ready. There would be iOT connected devices at every cross walk, intersection, points where speed limit changes and so forth. These devices would communicate to vehicles in their vicinity things like - you are X feet from a cross walk, there is someone in the cross walk, you are approaching stop sign, speed limit changed to X mph, stop light will turn red in X seconds, stop light just turned green but traffic has not cleared, etc. etc. If the geographic area is not “certified” as being auto-pilot capable a nag will be active and you will need to manage driving as we do now. Maybe combined with weather alerts that could disable self-driving in icy, foggy, snow, etc. and combined with all the capabilities Tesla, Mobileye. GM, etc. are working on involving cameras, sonar, lidar, radar, etc., such “almost-self-driving” can be possible in our life times.
